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from the southerly and inland character of the locality. The specimen 

 is in incomplete breeding dress. — Elliott Coues, Washington, D. C. 



Relaying op Hawks in the same Nest when robbed. — In an old 

 partly decayed chestnut-tree, at a locality in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 

 was found, in the spring of 1872, the nest of a Sparrow-Hawk {TinnuncU' 

 lus sparvcrins). From this tree, at intervals of about ten days, were taken 

 three sets of five eggs each, making fifteen in all. The first and second 

 sets were taken from the same hole. In the spring of 1873, from the same 

 hole from which sets one and two of the previous year were removed, were 

 taken, April 24, five eggs ; on May 6, from the same hole, four more eggs ; 

 on ;May 23, from the same hole, two eggs, and two others were left. On 

 May 29, when the nest was again visited, another egg had been deposited, 

 making*,for this season, also, a total of fifteen eggs, deposited by the same 

 pair of Hawks. The last eggs laid vary greatly from those laid earlier. 

 Two of them are much smaller, measuring 1.41 X 1.19 and 1.31 X 1.10, 

 while the average size of the earlier laid eggs is about 1.44 X 1.20. The 

 greatest diff'erence, however, is in color, two of the last laid eggs (the 

 smallest) being slightly marked, one being almost white. 



In the spring of 1874, from a nest of a Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperi) 

 four eggs were taken on April 24 ; May 5, two more eggs were taken from 

 the same nest ; and May 11, two others. Later in the season (about Au- 

 gust 1), on visiting the same locality, two young Hawks of this species 

 were seen, but I do not know that they were reared in this old nest. — 

 C. J. Pennock. 



The Willow Grouse in New York. — Mr. Romeyn B. Hough, Cor- 

 nell University, Ithaca, N. Y., writes : " Not finding the Willow Grouse 

 (Lagopus albics) hitherto credited to the State of New York, I take the 

 liberty of informing you that there is one in my collection which was 

 taken in Watson, Lewis County, on May 22, 1876. It was killed by the 

 person who brought it to me, who said that it was the only one he saw, 

 and that it was not very shy. It was a male, changing plumage, — mostly 

 white, but with brown head and neck. This is the first instance that has 

 come to my certain knowledge, though I have heard of some lumbermen 

 catching in winter what they called a ' White Partridge,' and which was 

 probably a Ptarmigan, though possibly an albino Spruce or Ruffed Grouse." 

 --Elliott Coues, TVashington, D. G. 



PiPiLO erythrophthalmus with Spotted Scapulars. — Mr. P. L. 

 Jouy, of Washington, D. C, submits to my inspection an interesting speci- 

 men of the Eastern Towhee, shot May 4, 1875, in the District of Colum- 

 bia, and requests me to make a note of its peculiarities for publication in 

 the Bulletin. The outer scapulars are distinctly and strongly marked, 

 near the end of the outer webs, with streaks of pure white ; there is much 

 concealed white in the black of the throat ; and in other respects, as the 



